Ask HN: Is Udacity's AI nanodegree worth it?

Re:Ask HN: Is Udacity's AI nanodegree worth it? by ztratar on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:03AM (#13165094)

IMO proper educational courses are not a means to an end, and will need strong supplement and continued work. It will provide a good foundation, and in the long run probably increases your worth as an engineer (ML or full-stack) more than a couple grand per year. Thus, as an investment, it's quite high.

In addition, as a full-stack engineer with no CompSci background, these types of courses and projects (non-CRUD, more challenging) will help set you apart from the waves upon waves of Rails/Angular bootcamp grads.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Udacity's AI nanodegree worth it? by nnq on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:07AM (#13165316)

> these types of courses and projects (non-CRUD, more challenging) will help set you apart from the waves upon waves of Rails/Angular bootcamp grads

yes, but the question is more like whether this particular course/nanodegree, which is priced like >4x as much as other courses in the fields, is really worth it?

I mean, they did kind of a poor job explaining its contents and why it's better than maybe getting a similar thing by combining much cheaper or free resources from them and their "competitor" MOOC platforms... even the backers, IBM + Amazon Alexa + Didi... are not exactly the most transparent and "leading" entities in their field, it's not like they have a "backed by Google/Facebook" that would inspires 10x more trust.

I will definitely continue learning more and trying to get a career in this field... but my question is about this particular learning resource: do you think it would be really worth the price?

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